Know of any robot competitions I’ve missed? Is your
local school or robot group planning a contest? Send an
email to steve@ncc.com and tell me about it. Be sure to
include the date and location of your contest. If you have a
website with contest info, send along the URL as well, so we
can tell everyone else about it.

For last-minute updates and changes, you can always
find the most recent version of the Robot Competition FAQ
at Robots.net:
http://robots.net/rcfaq.html

— R. Steven Rainwater

O c to ber

2-4

MindSpark

College of Engineering, Pune, India
MindSpark includes a standard Micromouse event
and a competitive pick-and-place event called
Dogfight. There’s also a Photoroller event for solar
powered bots.
www.robotics.mind-spark.org

11-12 The Franklin Cup

The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Remote-control vehicles destroy each other
in Philly.
www.nerc.us/events/events.html

18-19 Chibotica
iHobby Expo, Rosemont, IL

Includes a variety of events for autonomous
robots such as line following, maze solving, mini
Sumo, and more.
www.chibots.org/

21-24 Russian Olympiad of Robots

Moscow, Russia

This competition has something for everyone
including autonomous events such as Sumo, fire
fighting, line following, and cross country. There
are also remote control combat type events.
http://intronics.bogorodsk.ru/